What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartok, some orchestral works.
Ivan Fischer (Conductor), Budapest Festival Orchestra.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

One of my favourite Vaughan Williams Symphonies is the second symphony.

Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 2 "London"
Kees Bakels
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra



I have also recordings of 1913 version and 1920 version.

Love the second one too.  And like you, I have (and also enjoy) that Hickox one. 

PD

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:

Roberto Gerhard
Concerto for Piano and Strings

Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Matthias Bamert & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

First time listening to the complete incidental music. Despite the many spoken parts, this is a brilliant score.

[j winter]

Dvorak 7 & 8, Rowicki LSO

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I have found something that can be a big help for your needs to be fulfilled.

A well-known Japanese cult!

[Symphonic Addict]

Schumann praised this symphony with good reason, it's got good tunes, sparkling energy, cohesion. The last movement reminded me of Dvorak. The Concertino is strong too.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas Pierre Boulez

[Todd]

Disc two equivalent.  As good as the first disc equivalent, as expected. 

[vandermolen]

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

Interesting. I hadn't realised that. I recently bought this set (new but very inexpensive):

[vandermolen]

Last CD before bed time.
I asked my daughter to get it for me a couple of Christmas's ago and hadn't realised how good it is. I like every track. The programme is:
Madetoja: Kullervo
Klami: Kalevala Suite (really like this atmospheric work)
Sibelius: Lemminkainen in Tuonela (1897 version - first recording). This is marvellous (nearly 16 mins) and very dark indeed. It's always been my favourite movement in the Four Legends for Orchestra and beautifully recorded here (best version I have heard since Thomas Jensen and the  Danish Radio SO),
But the big discovery here is:
Tauno Pylkkanen's 'Kullervo Goes to War'(1942) a dark and moving work, very relevant for its time and sadly still so today.
Here's a review of the CD:
https://sibeliusone.com/concert-reviews/scenes-from-the-kalevala-review/

[Lisztianwagner]

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

An excellent idea, I'll provably follow your example about Rachmaninov's music this year.

2024 is Schönberg's 150th anniversary.....will you keep some time for his music too? 

[JBS]

The Italian and Reformation symphonies.

This set is as good as I remember it being

[Keemun]

Fauré: Requiem (Nigel Short, London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble & Tenebrae)

Very good and one of my top 3.

[Operafreak]

Mozart: Prussian Quartets-Doric String Quartet (string quartet)

   

[Madiel]

Followed up by CD 5 of Janne Mertanen's Sibelius Piano Works set.
Valse Chevaleresque Op 96c
Valse Lyrique Op 96a
Sechs Bagatellen Op 97
Huit Petits Morceaux Op 99
Five Romantic Compositions Op 101
Five Characteristic Impressions Op 103
Funf Skizzen Op 114

I have no idea if this linguistic diversity of titles in three languages is due to the composer, his publishers, or merely someone on Sony's staff.

The linguistic diversity is original rather than due to anyone at Sony. Though how much is because Sibelius actively wanted to muck around and how much is BECAUSE he was regularly selling small pieces to different publishers across Europe is a bit of a chicken-and-egg question.

[Madiel]

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

Excellent. You're keeping all the best stuff until the end.

[Madiel]

Fauré: Requiem (Nigel Short, London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble & Tenebrae)

Very good and one of my top 3.

If you mean top 3 Faure requiems, I'd be curious to know the others.

[vandermolen]

Before work - Good Morning (wherever you are)
Goossens: Phantasy Concerto + Symphony No.1 (Richard Hickox's last recording) Chandos dedicated this CD to his Memory.

[Harry]

Before work - Good Morning (wherever you are)
Goossens: Phantasy Concerto + Symphony No.1 (Richard Hickox's last recording) Chandos dedicated this CD to his Memory.

Good morning Jeffrey,
That CD is still on my wishlist, and will probably acquire it this year.